Journalist and Documentary Film Business and Legal Guide.

The internet has disrupted journalism and documentary film business models and upended laws. For citizen journals & moreMany tutorials teach you "how to be a journalist" or "how to shoot a documentary or"how to conduct an interview", but none of them give include the MISSING PIECE: the legal and business information you need to write, shoot, and/or publish controversial facts, photographs and moving images of other people while avoiding trouble.

Are you a digital journalist or documentarian who wants to get the information that you'd get in a $500 an hour consultation with a lawyer BUT can you not afford to invest that type of money right now? This course is for you.

Do you want actual examples of

the laws that affect publishing everything from mugshots to criminal records and speecheshow to deal with copyrights and licenses for images and photoswhere to find legal, re-usable public domain photos that you can use for your worklegal templates that you can download and use for your own video shootsThese are just a few of the topics I go over in this course.

Don't let the course length scare you though, you only need to watch the sections that are relevant and useful to you.